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Old women can be so annoyingly persistent. Take these two old Chinese broads (pictured) who had the audacity to try and protest at the Beijing Olympics in one of the two areas officially designated for, well, protest:
The women, Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, had made five visits to the police this month in an effort to get permission to protest what they contended was inadequate compensation for the demolition of their homes in Beijing.Five visits. You believe that crap? You’d think that after, like, three visits, they’d get the picture. Look, old ladies, China needed your houses so we could all celebrate the glory of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt and the rise of Communist China as a major world power. And you know the old saying – if you want to make an omelet, you have to demolish a few old ladies’ houses.
Furthermore, as if this wasn’t self-evident from the get-go, the designated protest areas at the Beijing Olympics are not to be used under any circumstances for protests of any kind. Not for Tibet, not for human rights, and certainly not for your two stupid houses that nobody cares about anyway.
In the end, China had no choice but to put these two nags in their place by sentencing them to “re-education” through a year of forced labor. That ought to shut ‘em up, and good riddance for that. Now can we get back to Usain Bolt already? Man he is fast ...
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What if was your house?
by Scot77 on Aug 20, 2008 4:07 PM EDT reply actions
I believe Large was using abnormally heavy amounts of sarcasm in this post. He’s defending the old ladies and their homes.
by cmottram on Aug 20, 2008 4:16 PM EDT reply actions
If you didnt get the sarcasm…well you probably need to be,well…RE-EDUCATED
by rifraf66 on Aug 20, 2008 5:47 PM EDT reply actions
a year of forced labour will learn those old punks some respect, dagnabbit
by msgg139 on Aug 20, 2008 5:50 PM EDT reply actions
Re-education worked to apparently un-gay that pastor in Arkansas, and it only took 3 weeks! Personally, I find the ‘ramshackle apartment’ to be underrated, and probably would more so after a year of forced labor. These two women should’ve just pooled their inadequate compensation and bought their own gold medal ticker; now that would be true Beijing Olympic Spirit.
by Larsen B on Aug 20, 2008 6:47 PM EDT reply actions
How long are we (the U.S.) going to sit back and not say anything about situations like this one written about in this blog? Will it be as long as we can borrow money from Communist China so we can continue to be in Iraq? As long as the U.S. keeps winning medals? We have used up a lot of our moral credibility by doing this, and by going with the flow of China hosting these Olympics. I ask you if it is worth it?
by bbaroo on Aug 20, 2008 9:06 PM EDT reply actions
don’t be a pansy.. there are too many loser protesters in the US anyways.. I wish they’d get reeducated too
by 3countriesplan on Aug 20, 2008 9:46 PM EDT reply actions
What you don’t know is that these two women are witches. Back in the days in North America (Massachusetts), these two women would had been burn alive.
by ringdabells on Aug 21, 2008 12:12 AM EDT reply actions
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